Show I Y I 1I 1I 1 I I I I I I A BRAVE CHARGE Story of American Cavalry Which Outdid Out-did the Famous Light Brigade I In a recent address Col W 0 Kent I Icy who served In the Ninth Now I York i cavalry compared the charge off I the Eighth Pennsylvania at Chancel lorsvlllo with the famous charge of tho Light llrlgade Immortalized by b I Tennyson The English l command i I said tho speaker in which everybody knew that some one had blundered numbered officers and men 037 It lost killed 113 wounded 131 total 247 or 3G7 per cent M r t Gallant and brave as slids charge was Col Uentley declared It was r jjp r s Forward They Sprang tamo beside the charge of tho Eighth Pennsylvania cavalry ate Chancellors vllle led by Maj Keenan whero never a man returned Our right had boon turned by Stonewall Jackson and at tho critical moment Keenan charged to check the advancing column in order or-der to gain time to enablo our artillery to bo put In place It was certain death no blunder or mistake but duty and It was bravely done George Parsons Lathrop described this great charge and although tho splendor of tho action can not be matched in words his tribute gives a most vivid picture of an event awful and sublime In Its devotion to duty It follows Hut suddenly rode a form Calmly In front of the human storm With a stern commanding shout Align those guns We knew It was PIcasanlona The cannoneers bent to obey And worked with a will at his word And the black nuns moved au If they had heard Hut ah the dread delay To wait Is crime O God for ten minutes time The general looked around There Keennn sat like a stone With his three hundred horse alone Leas shaken than the ground Major your men 7 Are soldiers general Then Charge major Do your best Hold the enemy hack nt all cost Till my guns placed else the army Is lost You die to save the rest I By the shrouded gleam of the western skies Bravo Keennn looked Into Tleasantons eyes For an Instant clear and cool and stllli Then with a smile ho said I will Cavalry charge Not a man of them shrank Their sharp full cheer from rank to rank Rose joyously with a willing breath Rosa like a greeting hall to death Then forward they sprang and spurred and clashed Shouted the otllccrH crimson gashed Redo well the men each brave us his fellow In their faded coats of blue and yellow And abovo In tine nil with an Instinct true Like a bird of war their pennon flew With clank of scabbards and thunder of steedK And blades that shine like Bunllt reds And strong brown fares bravely palo Ioi1 fear their proud attempt should fall Three hundred Prniisylvanluns close I On twice ten thousand gallant foes I Ana after linn the troopers came To the edge of the wood that was ringed with flame Hade In and sabered and shot and fell Nor came ere back his wounds to toll nut over them lyingthere shattered and mute What deep echo rolls Tin a death salute From the cannon In place for heroes you braved Your fate not In vain tho army IB saved |